Your Smart Home Without An Internet Connection

Your Smart Home Without An Internet Connection

What happens with the internet or WiFi goes out in your home and you have a number of smart home products? Find out here!

What works, what doesn't, and what works partially in terms of home automation? The answers are simple, but we look through everything from Google Home and the Google Assistant, Amazon Echo and Alexa, Apple HomeKit and the HomePod, including Siri, Samsung SmartThings, Philips Hue, and all of your ZigBee and Z-Wave products as well as everything that's on WiFi. We show you our Google Home Hub, Philips Hue lights, and the Samsung SmartThings motion and multipurpose sensors.

Here's every product shown in the video (most affiliate links):

The #internet or your #WiFi going out in your #smarthome can be a pretty scary thing, but not if you have the right products with the right set up.

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Brian

[chipgoon]

Home Assistant with Aeon zwave stick. No Internet, no problem. And, it's open source

[igorfomenko]

Sonoff has wifi and zegbee devices and both work wo internet, it is their LAN mode. Unfortunately, loop timers still don't work via LAN.

[XboxStickey]

Zigbee and Zwave 4life! I think the only device I even need internet for is my ring doorbell. Other than that I dont even need wifi (running Homeassistant).

[hometechUK]

Great video thanks. It's terrible that Google home & Alexa cannot do anything. You should still be able to ask "what's the time", "what's the date", "what's the weather" even without the weather. They should store some of the basic questions.

[robertbradbury]

Should be titled, "what happens when you forget to pay your internet bill."

[servant]

I was thinking that having a router (or hub?) that could do optional blue-tooth paring to allow a smart phone to provide an internet connection for security and home-automation purposes only would be great, even without having the phone be a full fledged 'internet' feed. ... Just my blue-sky thoughts!

[Aerox]

The only thing I would need an internet-connection for - is using a web browser. I really don't need the lightbulbs in my bathroom to be Googling around on some globally connected cyber-net everytime I forgot to switch them off after I've posted some REAL WORLD shi...😶 ...well, you get my point! 😆

Nah... I want one network dedicated for devices that actually USE the internet (which is...ONE device..) and a second fully LOCAL wifi-network, hosted seperately on it's own hardware, to wirelessly connect, controll and automate everything else inside my OWN PRIVATE HOME! 🤦‍♂️

[BlackCountryVlogger]

Wasn't sure where to put this but this weekend Continued Conversation is working in the UK with the UK Google Assistant so don't have to switch to Google(US) if you don't want to 😁

[FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

It is not Authentication exclusively. If the items is stolen, it I could still get used by somebody else. It happens all the time. So its a matter of data collection or ignorance in design.

[mikeace]

you really good at teaching cos i watched the whole video and i already knew everything you talked about, most videos loose me at 60sec

[FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

Google docs works without internet.. however it spells " comma " rather than insert the correct punctuation. In fact while traveling sometimes I put on airplane mode so that I get better performance from the voice to text. Im just not sure what next steps are going to look like.

[RonnyW]

Hi! What a GREAT channel you have! I am currently renovating an RV into a wheelchair-accessible RV so that people with disabilities can have access to the great outdoors. I really want it to be a smart-home RV so that people without the ability to use their hands can easily use the electronics in the RV. The problem is that it needs to work without an internet connection. Can you recommend what the best system would be to use?

[KTHKUHNKK]

Hello again Keith Kuhn here.
I have a quick question I will get right to the point. I run Windows 10 on my desktop PC.
I live in an older house so when it storms I unplugged my PC the AC power that is.
Ninety-nine percent of the time when I plug it back in it boots up into Windows 7.
Then I have to go into the BIOS and change the boot sequence back into Windows 10.
Can you think of any reason it may be doing this.
Thanks Keith Kuhn.
PS - - Another reason I subscribed is because I see you reply back to your fan base.

[InvisiblePinkSoylent]

The only real surprise there IMHO is that Smart Thing's user interfaces stop working. They should do better. Vera, Open Hab, etc would be fine.

Your Google Chromecast devices can play music from your local network if you're using something like Roon or Bubble UPnP Server W/ a DLNA server and Bubble UPnP Player (or another SMARTHOME speaker compatible app such as Linn's Kazoo). I'm pretty sure that the Google Chromecast Audio is fine in this configuration without a connection. Not so sure about the Home devices.

Your wifi switches can be updated to connect to a local MQTT server with the right firmware update. From there you should be able to use your Hub to control those devices via MQTT (though not Samsung Smart Thing's apparently).

Mick.

[TheJakeRobinson]

so, I have a Shark vac robot that has an app + wifi - I do not have internet access at my home. Can I set up a typical WiFi set up so my phone can control/access the vac robot app? Thanks

[khurram]

That's good, I don't want to pay internet connection but want a smart home so best way is to go ZigBee based devices. Isn't it?

[watsonfitnessmiami]

Sounds like what happens when you don’t let big brother have access to your home.

[abhishekbhagwat]

Hi, I want to know what happen if power cuts and come back again will devices turn on automatically or we have to turn it on? For example Philips hue bulb

[mlixelplix]

As always Brian, great and informative video. I can now see why Thread was developed. I cannot wait to see how that protocol will change the way we access our smart homes when critical components like the internet are down.

[bernardbredhauer]

Good demo Brian, I think most people would go crazy if the internet went for a long period of time.